In Lviv region, Zakhidnyi Bug Agrocompany has begun sugar beet sowing. This year, more than 8,2 thousand ha of sugar beet are planned to be sown. KWS, Strube, BetaSeed, Florimond Desprez, Hilleshog, SES Vanderhave beet seeds are used for the sowing campaign. The average beet yield planned for 2019 reaches 65 ton/ha. Every second ton…
Ukrainian SkyUp Airlines will launch flights to the Croatian city of Pula on June 15. “SkyUp Airlines will fly to Croatia every Saturday starting from June 15,” SkyUp Airlines reports on Facebook. It is also noted that the price of a roundtrip ticket (Kyiv – Pula – Kyiv) without luggage starts from UAH 4,336. The…
Two programs aimed at helping farmers in construction of elevators will work in 2019. One program provides for a 30% compensation to agricultural producers from the amount spent on the construction. Around UAH 859 million are provided for these purposes. The second program provides for a 25% compensation of domestically produced elevator equipment cost. (UkrAgroConsult/Business…
The Deposit Guarantee Fund of Ukraine has extended the terms of liquidation of two banks – PJSC Profin Bank and JSB Ukoopspilka, the Fund’s press service reports. “The Executive Directorate of the Deposit Guarantee Fund approved a decision dated March 25, No. 660, to extend the term of liquidation of JSB Ukoopspilka for one year,…
Kyiv-based Bogdan Corporation, one of Ukraine’s major motor vehicles manufacturers, has manufactured the first 18-meter bus body for electric buses of Bluebus, a French manufacturer of environment-friendly public transport vehicles, as part of a new contract signed earlier this year. “Partnership with European companies is an important vector of the corporation’s development, which seeks to…
The opening of Ryanair flights from Kharkiv Airport is the result of lengthy talks Ukraine’s Kharkiv International Airport has begun cooperation with Europe’s major discount air carrier, Ireland’s Ryanair, by launching new international flights from the city of Kharkiv. “We are pleased that Kharkiv Airport has become the third Ukrainian airport for Ryanair. In 2019,…
Ukraine’s state and government-guaranteed debt, estimated in U.S. dollars, shrank by 0.02%, or by $10 million, to $78.24 billion, in February. The debt in the hryvnia equivalent over the period under review fell by 2.8%, or by UAH 60.02 billion ($2.2 billion), to UAH 2.112 trillion (nearly $78.3 billion), according to the Ukrainian Finance Ministry’s…